WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, following the Senate voting to begin debate on the Save America Act, U.S. Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) released the following statement:
“83% of Americans agree on voter ID.
“71% of Democrats agree on voter ID.
“Keep it basic: PHOTO ID to vote.
“Stop turning this into a Christmas list and attacking vote-by-mail.
“If the GOP wants real reform over a show vote––put out a clean, standalone bill and I’m AYE.”
Consistent with the majority of Americans, Senator Fetterman fully supports photo identification to vote. The SAVE America Act, in its current form, includes various policies that make it unworkable not just for Democrats, but also Republicans, with the Senate’s Republican leaders warning the bill is set up to fail.
Senator Fetterman has pointed to states like Wisconsin that enshrined voter identification and continues to protect that requirement. On voting by mail, Pennsylvania Republicans helped usher in election reform to include mail-in voting in 2019, with a high number of Republican voters utilizing this safe and secure method as recently as last year. On voter fraud, Senator Fetterman highlighted the Heritage Foundation’s database and the Bipartisan Policy Center’s analysis of the database to reinforce voter fraud is highly uncommon with 77 cases reported across the country from 1999 to 2023.
The SAVE America Act is now on the Senate floor for debate.
